LitStack Reviews

Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, first published in 1970, is…

You must read The Quincunx, a remarkable novel in the Victorian style. Charles Palliser crafted…

Read on for Allie Coker’s exciting review of Dale Neal’s compelling novel, Kings of Coweetsee.…

Read on below for LitStack’s original review of Middlemarch by contributing author Lauren Alwan. But…

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman My first encounter with Coraline was with the movie, an unusual…

LitStack is excited to bring you Lauren Alwan’s review of Molly Giles’ first nonfiction book,…

Entwining Their Tendrils Through The Very Fabric Of Our Waking Hours Only For the Brave…Or…

So rich it feels like you’ve been transported to Indigo Field Buried Bones, Silent Burdens:…

“Seconds” – Have we misunderstood the very nature of good and evil? Seconds, A Short…

This LitStack review takes a look back at the 2019 release of A Woman Is…

5 bestsellers by women that catapulted into the public consciousness. The 1970s Were Not For…

Is Sophie’s Choice a true story? Styron based his novel on his memory of a real-life woman named Sophie, a survivor of Auschwitz he met in Brooklyn.

Great Monologues in Literature The Words That Trap Our Attention Now we want to look…

Solitude, the power of books and stories, and the importance of finding one’s place in…

The musical Six is a fantastic, joyous musical that does what theater does best: synthesizes…

Here are 4 haunting and complex novels that draw you into their madness, leaving your…

That Pinson Girl is a novel about Leona Pinson—but it’s also about her interjecting aunt…

Experience Literary Magic: 5 Novels on Film that Won The Top Prize at the Academy…

LitStack is proud to give you this review written by guest contributor, Michael Collins, who…

In keeping with LitStack’s commitment to review books of poetry and poetry chapbooks, we are…

In Newburn Vol. 1, a man is murdered after stealing from his own mafia family,…

Journey back to Thomas Maltman’s thriller Little Wolves in LitStack’s review of this astounding mystery…

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The sensibility of this singular actor may have its push and pull, but among the pleasures of reading his diaries is being inside Rickman’s head.

Nautical Novels – All Aboard for Danger on the High Seas! Search on Bookshop.org One-Way,…

A delicious depiction of Hollywood’s golden age. Hey! I Won An Oscar! In 2013, when…

A Glimpse Into the Abyss and Beyond  With brilliant craftsmanship and awe-inspiring creativity, book two…

For querying writers hoping to publish that first book, the challenge of querying for representation…

Enter Unknown Worlds Through A Twist of The Subtle Knife While our heads are still…

Envision Worlds, People and Happenings You Would Never Conceive on Your Own Nobody writes like…

Exploring a Complex Southern History Kudzu—the invasive weed that overtook the South, choking houses, fields,…

BUY Maia at Barnes & Noble Introduction to the Novel Maia by Richard Adams Maia,…

Discover The Thrill Of Espionage In 5 Spy Novels 5 Captivating Spy Novels The world…

Another supremely twisted thriller from the author of Alice and Near the Bone. Our LitStack…

A LitStack Review of “Ninth Street Women” by Mary Gabriel The Significance of Ninth Street…

For this LitStack Rec, we’re recommending two books, Alfred Hitchcock/Truffaut, and Boy Erased. A Definitive…

Catwoman: Lonely City and Cliff Chiang have been plotting against me. Catwoman and Chiang Have…

Happy Halloween as this review revisits Tiny Nightmares Do Tiny Nightmares Scare You? In their…

In Julie Benesh’s About Time, a memoir in poems, there is well-disguised tension. Julie Benesh’s…

The main character of the Broadway musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,…

Here are five 5-star books you must read this fall. My fall reading list has…

Introducing the eagerly awaited “Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023” Get ready to dive…

I had love expectations for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It…

A debut review by writer Emmie Finch of the books of Pellinor, by Alison Croggon.…

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges For…

A Section on Graphic Novels I recently browsed my local library and saw something that…

Ship Fever: Stories, by Andrea Barrett One of my favorite National Book Awards selections in…

Introduction to 5 Novels from the 1970s The 1970s was a decade of change and…

The Dutch House, finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. The question comes from Danny Conroy,…